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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22


-One OF the stories Of the sort which
formed the staple Of subject for school
OF literature now pretty well gone out Of
fashion is told concerning the Quincy
House and its late proprietor, Mr.. j. W.
johnson. 1t is related by those sometimes
entertaining and anon prolix gossips who
know all the old stories which deal with
their neighbors that once Mr.. johnson, then
farmer up country, came to Boston to sell
a load Of potatoes. Such was his ill-luck,
however. or the dizziness Of the MARKET
that at the close of his marketing he found
himself without ready money enough to
pay his score at the Quincy House, where
he had taken q room. There was talk Of
retaining the farmers horses IN pledge
for his bill, but Johnson, who was o
powerful man, went himself to the stables
and harnessed his team, no man daring to
interfere with him except by word. The
matter terminated for the time being in the
regulation manner Of the old comedies.
The farmer departed in q fine rage, pur-
sued by the taunts of the employees Of the
house, which he answered with a vow to
own the whole establishment before he
died. From that day his one ambition
seemed to be to fulfil his boast, and to this
end he labored and saved until-still in the
old-fashioned comedy fashion-events had
been shaped to his will, and his pluck and
his persistence were rewarded by the actual
possession Of the Quincy House, from
whose doors he had once been iynomin-
iously driven because he could not pay hls
bil-BOstoH Letter.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
A New Scheme.

WARRINGTON. July 1.-THE fart that
there is no telegraphic communication be-
tween Japan, China, New ZEALAND and
the Sandwich Islands will probably le,d
the State Department to appoint an OH
cial agent with headquarters at San
Francisco, whose business it shall be to
open the mail arriving by the Pacific
steamers and forward by telegraph to
the department such information as it
may be necessary for the department to
have Immediately. In case Of diplom ,tie
complications, which arc liable to occur
at any time in all these countries, saw.
ing Of time in tho action to be taken by
the department would be of the greatest
importance.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
The Haw.iian Revolution.

Australia arrived this morning from
Honolulu, with dates up TO July 5 The ex-
element over the movement which effected
a change in King Kalakaua's Cabinet has
almost entirely subsidized, and affairs are
moving along in their usual course. The
only new incident Of any importance that
has occurred since July I is the turning
over OF ex-Premier Gibson and his son-in-
law, Assessor F. h. Hayselden, who were
arrested for malfessancc in Office, from tho
military to the civil authorities. Gibson
was allowed to return to his home under
guard. His case was set for July 8, and
the result will not be known here until the
arrival OF the next steamer from Honolulu.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
G. A. r. CIRCULAR.
No Disagreement With the st. Louis Con
mtttee.

No Disagreement With the st. Louis Com
mittee.
MILWAUKEE, July IA special from
Madison, Wis, says: st became known
to-day that the Grand Army dlguItaries,
who were here Saturday night, held a Sc
cret meeting with Chief
Fairchild before their departure, and ar
ranged a circular soon to be issued to all
posts of <le country. The circular will de-
clare that a gross Misrepresentation has
been made in regard to the state of the
feeling existing between the National
Grand Army headquarters and the ST.
Louis committee Of arrangements. and that
the committee is in perfect accord with the
Commander in. Chief on all questions re-
lating to the encampment. The circular
will embrace a strong assurance from the
Commander-in-Chief that great harmony
prevailed in St. Louis, and that all state
ments made or action taken which resulted
in trouble and discord in st. Louis were
based on unofficial and unwarranted in
formation
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
Harvey Indicted.

WAsHINeroS, July 1.-THE grand-jury
yesterday found an Indictment against
Oscar J. Harvey, who recently confessed
to dcfrauding the Government through
forgery and other means. The indictment
consists of four counts and cites forgeries
Of the names OF Charles A. Lane and
Nathaniel Person. The arraignment was
set for Monday next
District Attorney Worthington states
that, in looking over the records in Har.
vey's Office. a record was found Of false
CLAIMS, showing how much allowed and
how much paid. Tho latter agreed with
the amount charged against him, aggrega
ting 81, 700
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
Tho Denver Poisoning.

DENVER, Col, July 13-The investigation
into the death Of John A. Witter before the
coroner's jury was resumed yesterday,
Drs. H. A. J.emen and Byron A. Wheeler
being the first witnesses. The former as
sisted at the post-mortem examination and
the latter was the personal physician Of the
deceased. They both testified to substan-
TALLY the same facts. that the lingering
death of Witter, his emaciated body,
which was reduced from lGO TO
less than ninety pounds and the condition
of the organs after death all pointed to
slow arsenical poisoning At the conclu-
sion of the testimony the jury retired and
soon returned . verdict that death was
from poisoning.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
JEFF DAVIS IMPUGNED.

his Recent Statement That Plot Was
COncOcted to Assassinate Him Declared
to be False.
New YORK, July 12-General Roger A.
Pryor, who was q member of the Con.
federate Congress, spoke to q Herald re-
porter yesterday of the dispatch in which
Jefferson Davis was represented as charg.
ing that plot was laid by Northern OH.
Gals during the war to assassinate the
President Of the Confederacy. General
Pryor denounced the story Of the alleged
assassination as ridiculous on its very
face" He said, II never heard Of the
circumstances here detailed. / do
not believe any person holding
responsible position in the North
would hire an assassin to come down and
kill Mr. DAVIS" The narrative dues not
sound like Mr.. Davis. An attempt to assas-
sinate the President of the Confederacy
would have been heard Of and would have
shocked the whole COnfederacy. In regard
to the charges made in the Davis interview
against Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylva-
mia, in response to an inquiry from the edit
or of the Herald, the war Governor makes
the following statement:
PHILADELPHIA, July II.
To the EiIor of the Herald:
There is not one word Of truth in what Is
said to have been uttered by Jefferson Davis
against me. l never pardoned q desperate
with the understanding that he would as
sassinate Mr.. Davis, and I had not money
and could not have tdken
from the treasury the sum he alleges
to have been the reward which he
states to have been 100000. During the
war represented the unanimous disposition Of
the people Of Pennsylvania to maintain the
Government by honorable warfare and not by
assassination. deem it my duty to make this
emphatic contradiction and deny not only this
charge. but that ever resorted to such means
for the conduct Of the war, SO far as l had any
agency in 1t. A. G, CURTIN.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
MIdshipmen Missing.

HALIFAX, n. s., July IA sad accident
occurred here Sunday, in which three mid
shipmen OF Her Msjesty's ship Canada
were drowned. Sunday afternoon F. j.
Taylor, H. q. Jenkins and II. w. J. Stew.
art left their ship to enjoy q sail in tho
harbor They went up as far as Bedford,
about eight miles from the city, and after
enjoying themselves ON shore started to
return about eight o'clock. The wind was
very high and they put on all sail They
were advised before leaving to use great
care. The boat did not return to the ship.
ana steam launches started out Monday
morning on a search, but no trace Of il g
Of tho young men could be found.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
A MuRDERous CRANK.

4 frsAlnent Citlssn of Washlngeoa A.
sassinated In the streets by Crsnk.
WASHINGTON, July A-Joseph G. p.
Kennedy, an attorney and real estate
agent, one OF the eldest residents Of wash
ington, and . personal acquaintance Of
many Of the most prominent people Of the
national capital, was murdered in cold
blood. apparently without provocatiop, BY
John DAILY, . white laborer, yesterday after
noon. A few minutes before i've o'clock
Kennedy left his oface and crossed the
street where he mailed several letters and
started to take car. When within few
feet Of the car, DAILY, who had been
lettering around the corner for sew
eral hours, walked up behind him
and drawing large keen bladed
knife. similar to those used by butchers in
killing hogs, ran IT into Kennedy's right
side near the abdomen with avicious lunge,
then gave 1t q jerk sidewise. A large
crowd was on the corner at the time, but
all were % horror stricken for moment
that nobody meved. Kennedy fell to the
ground after giving the cry of ''murder, {"
groanod deeply and pointed to the MUIR
deror, who made NO attempt to escape. The
knife dropped out Of Kenuedy's side - q
physician came up, while Henry Mason, .
colored Waterman, seised Daily, who stood
looking on apparently the most uncon-
cerned and sell-possessed man In the
crowd. Kennedy expired in FIVE minutes and
the body was removed to the police station.
The excitement rose rapidly and the crowd
grew boisterous and threatened to hang
tho murderer, but Daily paid no attention
and refused to say why he committed the
crime Once, when provoked by the crowd,
he turned serenely around and said: ''Yes,
killed him, - him" The murderer il .
man about fifty years Of age, apparently Q
workingman. At the station house he told
. rambling, incoherent story about an
affair Of which the general purp0rt was
that Kennedy had wronged his father
years ago, securing property worth
$1,000 for 500, and refused to
make restitution. Kennedy was about
scventy-fve years old, Of . Mary.
land family, one of the most respected citi--
zens in Washington, and a grandson Of
Ellicott, who, at the request of President
Washington, surveyed the ten miles
square Incorporated as the District Of Co
lumbia. In 1850 and 1860 he was Commits
sioner Of the Census. He was prominent
politician in his esrly days and an ardent
adherent Of the old Wing party.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
Killed by Lightning.

evening, when the burial of Harriet Terry,
colored, had been concluded and the crowd
rain storm came up. A party Of nine took
shelter under large oak tree standing In
the cemetery which was struck by light
ming, killing them all instantly. Otheis
who were sheltered under tree close by
saw the party Of Zine killed, but were I'M
hurt themselves. They all fell in q heap
and seemed to die without struggle.
After the coroner's inquest the bodies
were taken in charge by relatives and
friends and will be inferred to morrow.
Intense excitement prevails, and the wall
ing and mourning Of the colored people
was terrible. The unfortunate victims
were highly respected.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
Collfery ON Fire.

PorrsvILLE, Pa, July 13-Otto, one Of
the best collieries Of the Philadelphia 4:
Reading Company, located at Branchdale,
Is on fire and is probably doomed to destruc.
ton, entailing loss to the company of ap-
proximat,ng 100000. The fire was dis
covered about nine O'Clock Sunday night,
caused by supc/heated steam pipes. An
effort was first made to smother the fire
with steam, but before morning the flames
were leapinx thirty feet above the mouth
Of the s.epe. A neighboring stream
wa. diverted and coal dirt Was washed
into the airway to cut on the IRE from the
Primrose and Mammoth veins. II this has
no. succeeded the colliery il doomed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
improvements 4. the Postal Service.

WARRINGTON, July 13-Postmaster Corse,
Of Baltimore, urges the Department TO
make an important improvement for the
better collection Of third and fourth class
printed matter, which now has to be carried
to the post-offlce, and can not, like letters,
be put in the street boxes. II would have
mail stations established" says Corse,
''where persons could 60, and where the
packages could be weighed and stamps
bought, and would have the packages COL
lected by the regular force. This would
add greatly to the convenience of the COM
munity, and the system would add largely
to the revenue Of the Government"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
Five Men Drowned.

BosroN. July IA member Of the Hull
Yacht Club reports to-day that on Sunday
afternoon, while on board his yacht, which
was anchored between Deer and Long
islands, in Boston Harbor, he saw q boat
containing five men capsize a mile away.
He put out In small boat for the place
where the accident occurred, but when he
arrived he could find nothing. Efforts are
being made to find the bodies.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
THE WEST.

The evening edition Of the Terre Haute
(lnd.) Daily Express has been sold to the
Gazette and consolidated with that paper
SEVERAL small buildings near Highmore,
d. T., were destroyed by . windstorm the
s,ther night.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
GENER Al.

The British wheat crop is reported to be
phenomenally good this year.
NJ FLoQUET. in letter to the Vice Presi-
dent OF the French Chamber Of Deputies,
announces his resignation Of the Office Of
President.
GENERAL CLrsEREr, Minister of War
during the existence of the Commune, has
returned to Paris, and it is rumored that
he is there to organize revolutionary
party.
ALL men on q furlough in South Russia,
have been ordered to rejoin their COM
panies.
kLBRIDE, the evicted Irish tenant who
accompanied Editor O'Brien to Canada
will probably be nominated to Parliament
for the Carlow vacancy.
IT is stated at ST. Petersburg that Turkey
mas approved Of the election Of Prince Fer
dinand as Prince Of Bulgaria.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of tho Daily NewA
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOT6A
SURGEON J. q. BILLINGS and Assistant
Surgeons Washington Mathews and F. C.
Ainesworth have been ordered to Wash
ington to examine candidates for admission
to the medical corpA
TEE supreme Court of the District Of
Washington hes sustained the demurrer Of
the Government and awarded . judgment
OF custer in tho case Of the United States
against John N. Oliver, . justice Of the
peace, who resisted the right Of the Presl-
delt to remove him, and claimed that he
could be displaced only by the District
Supreme Court.
TEE Commissioner Of the General Land
Once has transmitted to the Secretary Of
the Interior Q report from the Surveyor
land claim known n the Tres Alamos No.
lO7. The 6urveyor-General recommends
that the claim be rejected. The tract in
question amounts to 4400 screA
JOSEPH c. KENNEDY, q venerable and
prominent citizen Of Washington, was
brutally stabbed to death by rough named
John Daily On the 18th. Kennedy was well
known in ante bellum days and assisted in
protecting Charles Sumner from the muir
derous attack Of Preston BrookA
The Treasury Department has decided
that there is nothing in the Contract Labor
law to prevent American citizens who may
reside in Canada from engaging in labor In
the United States.
A DISPATCH received at Washington re
Gently reports that owing to an accident
to the steering gear Of the United States
steamer Trenton of Hampton roads, that
vessel would not be able to get to sea for
some time,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22
THE SOUTH.

lHE recent prOnlOltlOn cleCUlOn IN fNOnc,
Ga, which resulted in an overwhelming
victory for the dry ticket has settled the
question that the remaining fourteen
counties of Georgia in which whisky is
sold must 60 dry, and that before six
months the State will be as absolutely dry
as Name.
By a premature explosion of giant pow
der while blasting rock on the Carolina
railroad. near the Catawba river, s. c., re-
Gently, one white man and eight negroes
were instantly killed.
FIVE new cases Of yellow fever and one
death were reported at Key West, Fla, on
the 18th.
Two children of John Bankhead were
killed by lightning at Opelika, Ala, re-
Gently. His wife and another child were
also FRUSTRATED at the same time.
AFTER the burial services over the body
of Harriet Terry, colored, at Mount Pleas
ant, Tenn, on the 18th, q thunderstorm
came on, VIII en- nine Of the mourners sought
shelter under q tree. A terrific fash OF
lightning struck the tree, killing them ali.
FIRE ut the Pearce cotton factory near
Greenville, 8. c., recently destroyed q, loo
bales Of cotton. The loss was SO, 600;
fully insured.
AT u uTc IN inc MeLuOQlSG OuurCu at
Bowling Green, KY, the other day, Fire
man Wells was killed by the big bell fall
ing on his head. The church was destroyed
but the loss was small
J. d. PEET & Co., leading cotton brokers
of New Orleans, have suspended, owing to
q failure to receive reimbursements on
margins as expected. A member of the
firm stated that the assets largely exceed
ed the liabilities.
Two ladies MRS. Craig and her niece,
Miss Alice Phillips,) were killed on q
trestle on the East Tennessee, Virginia &
Georgia railroad, near Chattanooga, the
other morning.
JOIN HUBBARD, sixteen years old, living
near Forrestburg, was killed the other
night five miles from Bowie, Tex, by City
Marshal R r Martin. Hubbard was
drunk and creating disturbance at the
time.
DR. DUDLEY 8. REYNOLDS has been elected
president Of the Mississippi Valley Medical
Association.
JOHN j. WALKER, Of Texas, has been
rendered and he has accepted the Office Of
Consul General and Secretary Of Legation
at Bogota, vice v. o. King, resigned.
FIRE at Baltimore recently destroyed the
Maryland hominy mills and other build
ings, the loss amounting to $3.50, 600; insur-
ance not known.
NEGRO ex-soldiers of Louisiana propose to
make a fight before the grand encampment
next fall because refused admission to local
Grand Army posts.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-22

brokers', Galveston, Tex, has failed on &C
count Of unfortunate speculations.
THREE men IN the Union steel works,
Chicago, were fatally burned by molten
iron the other day.
FIRE broke out in the car works at Terre
Haute, Ind, the other night and destroyed
the whole establishment. The loss was
about 1000; insurance not known.
The Iafraasigeant, Of Paris. recently an
nounced that the police had discovered GER
tain documents which showed the exist
ence of Socialist plot to murder the En-
peror William while journeylng to Gastein.
Precautions were taken, but the plot, if
any, failed to develop.
The steamer Eliza Hancock, an excursion
boat running to Bay Ridge, ran into yacht
near New York recently, capsizing her.
Four men were drowned.
The other night, near Detroit, Mich, the
City Of MackInaw ran into and wrecked Q
row boat in which were Christopher Nicolas
and wife, Jacob Roller and Jacob Bach
man, all of Detroit. All four were drowned.
HOWARD l. JACKSON died Of hydrophobia
at Cleveland, O., recently. He received
slight bite from strange cur ten days pre-
viously.
HAMMOND & Sous ironworks at Pitts
burgh, Pa, were destroyed by fire recent
~. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The lasters in several manufactures in
Salem, Mass, have struck on account Of
disagreement about wages.
THE New York Mining and Smelling
Company, capital 1900, 600, has been incor-
porated ut Little Rock, Ark.
By direction Of Acting Secretary Thomp-
son an examination of the books and &C.
mt nf Hl,<, ls,l, x,As nf hn
Treasury Department at Washington was
begun on the 10th.
AT Riverside, Ark, q brute tied his step
son, aged five years, in the sun, after beat
ing him recently. from the effects of which
the bQy died. The brute then fed.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-22
Live Stock Market,

KASsAs CITY, Mo, July 20.-LiVe Stock In
&c Ator reports. CatrIe-kecelpEs, goo ship
market is dull and weak and Ice tower good
10 choice corn fed g sGG3 20; common to.
medlu m $ COG3 25; stOCEers 3 OO82 50, feeding
steers = f0G2 S0i COWS Il 1902 40; grass range
steers > 25d2 =, Hog5-ReCepts l6,lnJi ship
ments. official yesterday. ! ,00i marketweaS and
fully Ice lower prices ranging from 81 jaj 80.
Sheep-ReCCiptS go; shipments official yes
terday 100; ,aarket weak; good 30 choice 3 80
as IS; common to medium 81 T5c2 ~.
ST, LOUIS, No. Iuly Observation-Disclosures
1900 shipments 220C market lower: fair ship
ping 10 choice heavy native steers, 50 5004 3Os
butchers steers, zlir 10 choice, s. 100
90; feeders, tair 10 good, s. 90G3 20; 5tockers,
fair 10 good, 800 q : so; Texas and Indians
common xrass to good corn fed s. OOGG 70.
HOgs-RsCeipts 3, 40; shiDnents, 20; mark ct
active, but lower ranging from q 60dj ~.
sheeO-ReCelpts ECO; shiDments 900; market
quiet 5Ut steady; cliDCed, fax to SanCJ
IS lOG4 10; LAMBS s. GIa4 ~.
SET YORK, July %. - Beeyes - Receipts,
ninety tTo carloads for market. and twenty
five carloads fc= city slt dghtere7s direct Trad
Ing Was mod eYately aCsiVe viii late sales n
diCat!rg weaker feeling Common to prime
steers sold a. 3 SCAT ~; extra and fancy do.
a. = T,Id4 -: one car Dad 81 > 90; dry COWS
and fat Oulls 8 lGGS 10 Exports 2i29 quarters
Of beef. Sheep-RoceiptS 800; market frLa and
&c per los pounds higher cor sheep active and
fully 25c aigher per 100 poands for lam b, which
we're scSrCe, 81 aeO sold at from 81 C0G5 p pc
l00pOuEds; lama5 from 50 01GS 90; really prir
lambs we're wanted at s >.
CHICAGO. LII July 20 Cattle - Rec
I3 SOC; shipments 500; market abou
lower; shipping steers 81 S5a4 % ;
and feeders 81 4033 10; COWS bulls arfse
81 OOG2 10; Texas cattle 81 1908 10. ~
Celpts 10 co., market slow, 5Gl Ice low 60-
from 81 90 TO 50 so. Sheep-Re
market steady and shade easier
a 80; western So J0G3 T5; Texe
Lambs 81 60G3 go per head.